Up Next: Yahoo! Maps as a WWJava Layer
Written by Chad on February 6th, 2009Based on the Virtual Earth Java code by Omega, there is now a Yahoo! Maps version of the code that can now be used in WWJava. Here is the code that you can use in your WWJava project.
Note that this is NOT an officially sponsored by Yahoo! use of their maps. While they were open to the idea of WW users accessing their imagery, they were not sure that their servers could handle the load. So that is why it was not done two years back, now could be a different story.
BTW.. how is it that every other online map service is open the idea of sharing their imagery and is able to.. yet Google seems to have the most restrictive deal going? (and with all this public domain imagery they want to gobble up.. that should all be shareable outside of Google)
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I wasn’t aware of any map service, other than OpenStreetMap of course, that has a license that will allow use outside of their specific services.
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In OpenLayers you can add Googles imagery as a layer as well…
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Mostly because they turn a blind eye to it… when there was the Plug-in-which-shall-not-be-named .. Google’s layers called up Patrick Hogan and made some threats. Gaia was an Open Source GE clone.. they got the lawyers at them. A GE option in Manifold got shot down as well.
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I wouldn’t say that that they turn a blind eye on it… AFAIR Google Maps in OpenLayers is perfectly legal, the tiles are accessed via Google Maps API and you have to get GMaps API key to display Google data on your page.
WorldWind and Manifold were downloading tiles ‘directly’
Gaia was even worse, because it was using Google *Earth* data (protected by some form of authentication and encryption)
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